Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7306

Harassment Claims

witness testimony:PSYCHOLOGICAL, INVESTIGATIVE AND EVIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVES
Edited by Anthony Heaton-Armstrong, Eric Shepherd, Gisli Gudjonsson and David Wolchover / Oxford University Press /
RRP £49.95 / 496 pages

The Nearest Relative Handbook

David Hewitt / Jessica Kingsley publishers / RRP £17.99 /
191 pages

Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 3) Rules 2007 (SI 2007/3662)

The prison population currently stands at over 81,000—roughly double what it was a mere 15 years ago. On present projections, in a few years’ time it will be over 100,000.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has made the first use of its powers to prosecute two individuals for insider dealing.

Holiday Blues, Expert Appointments, Drug Problem

Small and medium-sized firms will be “disadvantaged disproportion­ately” by the new legal discipli­nary practice (LDP) provisions of the Legal Services Act, the Legal Services Policy Institute claims.

C v D [2007] EWCA Civ 1282, [2007] All ER (D) 61 (Dec)

The courts are adopting an inconsistent approach to cohabitee disputes, says Sarah Greer